Actually your quotes are inherently false. The size of a number deals with just that, it's size, such as 2 is bigger than 1, but -4 is bigger than 2. However greater and less deal with the value of the expressed number, so any positive number is greater than any negative number. So negative infinity (negfinity) would be the largest of all the negatives, but not the greatest, and it could never be greater than any positive number. But a nice play at abstract math concepts.
Actually your quotes are inherently false. The size of a number deals with just that, it's size, such as 2 is bigger than 1, but -4 is bigger than 2. However greater and less deal with the value of the expressed number, so any positive number is greater than any negative number. So negative infinity (negfinity) would be the largest of all the negatives, but not the greatest, and it could never be greater than any positive number. But a nice play at abstract math concepts.
I think that, aside from the fundamental flaws I pointed out already, he is trying to say that "negative infinity is greater than infinity and thus greater than everything". Seems to me like a fallacious and superfluous way to say that negfinity is greater than everything.
mrwalker, i congratulte you on staying out of an arguement thusfar with your reactions and ignoring the people when they speak bluntly, but the quotes do have a purpose and I personally got them. He has said he's sorry if they don't make a perfect math sense in a logical form, but it's ok to explore a bit in a non mathmatical way.....
Is it due to the fact the negfinity can be any negative number, therefore since negininity can be any negative number, it can be larger than any other negative number. For example - 1 < Negfinity -4199656 < Negfinitity